Top Yearly Selling UK Singles (1994-2009)

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Spice Girls
Britney Spears

1994

1. "Love Is All Around" Wet Wet Wet - 1,752,000
2. "Saturday Night" Whigfield - 1,092,000
3. "Stay Another Day" East 17 - 778,000
4. "Baby Come Back" Pato Banton - 727,000
5. "I Swear" All-4-One - 706,000
6. "Without You" Mariah Carey - 580,000
7. "Always" Bon Jovi - 547,000
8. "Crazy for You" Let Loose - 506,000
9. "Things Can Only Get Better" D:Ream - 485,000
10. "Doop" Doop - 467,000

1995

1. "Unchained Melody/White Cliffs Of Dover" Robson Green & Jerome Flynn - 1,844,000
2. "Gangsta's Paradise" Coolio featuring L.V. - 1,110,000
3. "I Believe/Up On The Roof" Robson Green & Jerome Flynn - 1,049,000
4. "Back For Good" Take That - 960,000
5. "Think Twice" Celine Dion - 928,000
6. "Earth Song" Michael Jackson - 802,000
7. "Fairground" Simply Red - 782,000
8. "You Are Not Alone" Michael Jackson - 714,000
9. "Missing" Everything But The Girl - 696,000
10. "Wonderwall" Oasis - 665,000

1996

1. "Killing Me Softly" Fugees - 1,350,000
2. "Wannabe" Spice Girls - 1,320,000
3. "Spaceman" Babylon Zoo - 1,100,000
4. "Say You'll Be There" Spice Girls - 900,000
5. "Return Of The Mack" Mark Morrison - 840,000
6. "Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit" Gina G - 790,000
7. "Three Lions (The Official Song Of The England Football Team)" Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds - 780,000
8. "Children" Robert Miles - 770,000
9. "Mysterious Girl (remix)" Peter André featuring Bubbler Ranx - 750,000
10. "2 Become 1" Spice Girls - 730,000

1997

1. "Candle In The Wind 1997 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight" Elton John - 4,770,000
2. "Barbie Girl" Aqua - 1,590,000
3. "I'll Be Missing You" Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - 1,360,000
4. "Perfect Day" Various Artists - 1,270,000
5. "Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!" Teletubbies - 900,000
6. "Men In Black" Will Smith - 880,000
7. "Don't Speak" No Doubt - 830,000
8. "Torn" Natalie Imbruglia - 810,000
9. "Spice Up Your Life" Spice Girls - 780,000
10. "Tubthumping" Chumbawamba - 780,000

1998

1. "Believe" Cher - 1,519,000
2. "My Heart Will Go On" Celine Dion - 1,302,000
3. "It's like That" Run-DMC vs Jason Nevins - 1,092,000
4. "No Matter What" Boyzone - 1,074,000
5. "C'est La Vie" B*Witched - 851,000
6. "How Do I Live" LeAnn Rimes - 701,000
7. "Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You)" Chef - 682,000
8. "Goodbye" Spice Girls - 680,000
9. "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" Pras Michel featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard introducing Mýa - 680,000
10. "Truly Madly Deeply" Savage Garden - 646,000

1999

1. "...Baby One More Time" Britney Spears - 1,445,300
2. "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" Eiffel 65 - 956,100
3. "The Millennium Prayer" Cliff Richard - 860,900
4. "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)" Lou Bega - 850,200
5. "9pm (Till I Come)" ATB - 791,500
6. "Livin' La Vida Loca" Ricky Martin - 775,700
7. "That Don't Impress Me Much" Shania Twain - 763,000
8. "Sweet Like Chocolate" Shanks and Bigfoot - 706,700
9. "Flat Beat" Mr Oizo - 678,000
10. "When the Going Gets Tough" Boyzone - 671,400

90's

Spice Girls:

Wannabe - 1,320,000
Say You'll Be There - 900,000
2 Become 1 - 1,080,000
Mama / Who Do You Think You Are - 660,000
Spice Up Your Life - 780,000
Too Much - 470,000
Stop - 312,000
Viva Forever - 623,000
Goodbye - 680,000
Holler - 328,000

Britney Spears:

Baby One More Time - 1,445,300
Sometimes - 427,600
Crazy - 368,000

I'll post the numbers for the 2000's a little later.

[Scott]

...BOMT: 2nd biggest selling song by a female in the 90s. Scratch, that: ever. 25th overall of all time.

[Late Winter]

Cher sold more according to the list?

[Scott]

Yeah, "Believe" is the biggest song by a female artist of all time.

[BRiTNASTY]

go Cher!

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2000

1 Can We Fix It? Bob the Builder 853,151
2 Pure Shores All Saints 685,343
3 It Feels So Good (remix) Sonique 642,001
4 Stan Eminem Feat. Dido 634,380
5 Who Let the Dogs Out? Baha Men 618,576
6 Rock DJ Robbie Williams 578,092
7 Toca's Miracle Fragma 530,742
8 Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) Spiller ft. Sophie Ellis Bextor 523,242
9 Never Had a Dream Come True S Club 7 492,948
10 Fill Me In Craig David 480,106

2001

1 It Wasn't Me Shaggy 1,180,700
2 Pure and Simple Hear'Say 1,078,400
3 Can't Get You out of My Head Kylie Minogue 1,037,235
4 Whole Again Atomic Kitten 939,000
5 Hey Baby DJ Ötzi 747,000
6 Uptown Girl Westlife 745,000
7 Don't Stop Movin' S Club 7 710,000
8 Angel Shaggy featuring Rayvon 585,000
9 Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus 550,000
10 Because I Got High Afroman 505,000

2002

1 "Anything Is Possible" Will Young 1,789,919
2 "Unchained Melody" Gareth Gates 1,329,740
3 "Hero" Enrique Iglesias 742,478
4 "Dilemma" Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland 659,662
5 "A Little Less Conversation" Elvis vs. JXL 634,364
6 "Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)" Gareth Gates 573,125
7 "Whenever, Wherever" Shakira 554,756
8 "The Ketchup Song (Asereje)" Las Ketchup 538,591
9 "Just a Little" Liberty X 502,138
10 "Without Me" Eminem 487,037

2003

1 Where Is the Love? The Black Eyed Peas 634,000
2 Spirit in the Sky Gareth Gates & The Kumars 551,527
3 Ignition R Kelly 550,000
4 Mad World Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules 395,000
5 Leave Right Now Will Young 390,000
6 All the Things She Said t.A.T.u. 336,000
7 Changes Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne 335,000
8 Breathe Blu Cantrell feat. Sean Paul 330,000
9 Make Luv Room 5 feat. Oliver Cheatham 320,000
10 Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) The Darkness 315,000

2004

1 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid 20 1,094,000
2 f**k It (I Don't Want You Back) Eamon 552,407
3 Cha Cha Slide DJ Casper 351,421
4 Call on Me Eric Prydz 335,000
5 Yeah Usher 300,000
6 All This Time Michelle McManus 292,000
7 Left Outside Alone Anastacia 275,000
8 Mysterious Girl Peter André 261,000
9 Toxic Britney Spears 260,000
10 f**k You Right Back Frankee 246,000


2005

1 Is This the Way to Amarillo Tony Christie 1,100,233
2 That's My Goal Shayne Ward 874,444
3 Axel F Crazy Frog 526,740
4 You're Beautiful James Blunt 471,388
5 Don't Cha Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes 369,520 1
6 All About You McFly 388,250
7 Lonely Akon 335,026
8 Hung Up Madonna 327,504
9 You Raise Me Up Westlife 319,976
10 Push the Button Sugababes 303,301

2006

1 "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley 820,053
2 "A Moment Like This" Leona Lewis 700,069
3 "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean 495,000
4 "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" Scissor Sisters 353,733
5 "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)" Sandi Thom 325,600
6 "From Paris to Berlin" Infernal 308,000
7 "Maneater" Nelly Furtado 296,000
8 "Patience" Take That 282,423
9 "SOS" Rihanna 243,000
10 "SexyBack" Justin Timberlake 241,250

2007

1 "Bleeding Love" Leona Lewis 787,652
2 "Umbrella" Rihanna 512,730
3 "Grace Kelly" Mika 492,500
4 "When You Believe" Leon Jackson 395,669
5 "Rule the World" Take That 357,325
6 "About You Now" Sugababes 346,420
7 "The Way I Are" Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson and D.O.E. 336,740
8 "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" The Proclaimers featuring Andy Pipkin and Brian Potter 333,750
9 "Valerie" Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse 329,490
10 "Ruby" Kaiser Chiefs 313,765

2008

1 "Hallelujah" Alexandra Burke
887,933
2 "Hero" The X Factor Finalists 2008
751,243
3 "Mercy" Duffy
535,664
4 "I Kissed a Girl" Katy Perry
479,453
5 "Rockstar" Nickelback
469,652
6 "American Boy" Estelle featuring Kanye West
460,474
7 "Sex on Fire" Kings of Leon
451,499
8 "Now You're Gone" Basshunter
443,534
9 "4 Minutes" Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
430,064
10 "Black & Gold" Sam Sparro
429,086

[Late Winter]

Alexandra Burke sold quite a bit more with her coronation single than Leona

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Digital Sales have increased a lot in the UK!